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BK: As you reflect back, growing up, how did you, did you have to help out at the dairy, or when you were younger, how did you, did you go to, did your mother take care of all of you, or did you go to a nearby daycare, or was there such a thing at that time?

SU: Well, I remember when we were still living on Seventh Avenue South, one day a white lady came. Well, I had never seen one because we lived among the Japanese only, in the middle of Japantown at that time. And here appeared a white lady that said, "Do you have any children here who'd like to go day school?" -- you know nursery school, or kindergarten. So my mother was so happy because she had five of us at that time. The Japanese Baptist Church was just kitty-corner then on Washington Street, between our place and the Nippon Kan. And this lady turned out to be a graduate of the Baptist Missionary Training School in Chicago. And her first missionary field was with the Japanese. So she was going to start this nursery school. And we all went. And I remember, too, holding onto her hands while she went up and down Japantown, way down to Jackson Street, to King Street. There were people still living on Dearborn, way down on Dearborn. She gathered up these children, and we'd take all of them to the nursery school. So that's how, despite that the fact that my mother was a Zen Buddhist priest's daughter and a Buddhist, so was my father, they were very happy that the Japanese Baptist Church was going to take care of their children.

BK: Right.

SU: So that's how I became a Baptist. People often ask me.

BK: Right.

SU: And the church has meant a lot to me. They've guided my life and helped me.

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